Canadian Cannabis News

Changes to Dealer Provisions May Make It Harder for Those in Need to Get Medication Marijuana activist Sam Mellace hopes to be the first licensed medical marijuana producer in Canada after spending the past 10 years running his “pretty much” … Read More

It’s been 15 years since Ross Rebagliati won snowboarding’s first Olympic gold medal at the 1998 Winter Games — and then nearly lost that medal after he tested positive for marijuana. Since then, the drug has become an integral part … Read More

After decades of wasted resources, clogged courtrooms and a shift in public perception, let’s end the war on weed Sometime this year, if it hasn’t happened already, the millionth Canadian will be arrested for marijuana possession, Dana Larsen estimates. The … Read More

The Sensible BC campaign for marijuana reform launched an ad campaign in West Vancouver for a province-wide cannabis referendum A quarter-million commuters crossing the North Shore this week will have likely noticed the new greenery along Marine Drive near the … Read More

Maybe marijuana isn’t all that bad. A story titled “Marijuana waste helps turn pot-eating pigs into tasty pork roast” caught the attention last Tuesday, as it described how a five-acre farm north of Seattle has discovered how using weed waste … Read More

There’s a better way to fund transit: Drug peddling. No, I don’t mean selling copies of the ( alleged ) Rob Ford video. Nor do I suggest using magic mushrooms or LSD to transport Torontonians without them leaving their La-Z-Boy. … Read More

The personal use of illegal drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, should be decriminalized as part of a federal-provincial strategy to tackle drug abuse, a B.C.-based national coalition of drug policy experts argue. In a report to be released Thursday, … Read More

Are we about to see the end of the war on drugs? Following ballot measures last November, producing and selling marijuana are now legal in both Colorado and Washington state. Several other U.S. states have decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, … Read More

4/20. New numbers released ahead of yearly smoke-out in city show majority warming to marijuana legalization in B.C. There will be more than just a pungent aroma wafting over the Vancouver Art Gallery at Saturday’s annual 4/20 protest. Activists say … Read More

If you want smaller government and you want the government out of people’s private lives, you need to support the legalization of marijuana. It’s the logically consistent viewpoint for a conservative. I write this in the leadup to the annual … Read More